Team Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant features from inception to launch, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

• Manage, uphold, and enhance reliability metrics for essential features.

• Review pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist team members in overcoming technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions within the team.

• Ensure shared components are well-tested, clear, and consolidated.

• Lead initiatives to improve team processes.

• Minimize the need for manual interventions during releases.

• Address recurring issues by modifying underlying systems.

• Increase automated verification and advance testing earlier within the development cycle.

• Organize planning sessions and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish review criteria and approval workflows.

• Engage in discussions related to Product, Design, and Engineering.

• Manage critical issues, oversee feature releases, and provide nightly builds for QA.

• Mentor early-career team members by providing learning opportunities.

• Complete multiple technical interviews and assess a real codebase during the hiring process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leading a team or managing a significant surface while remaining hands-on.

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other long-lasting background processes.

• Comprehension of the significance of tests and strategies for writing them, including understanding what cannot be tested.

• An example of a contribution you made to a team that remained effective after your departure, along with an honest evaluation of the effort required to achieve this.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the role: encouraging changes in workflows and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes warrant extensive review and which do not, based on the functionality of the system.

• A history of developing tools and systems that your team actively utilized, rather than just those that improved your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, beyond your personal approach.

• An intuitive sense of product design, user empathy, and the ambition to elevate Android UI/UX beyond the specified requirements.

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is detailed in the specifications.

• Exceptional communication skills.

• Links to your portfolio and LinkedIn profile.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus.

• Stock.